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MEIKO'S MEAN, GREEN, FOOD EATING MACHINE
Bagging kitchen waste and sending it to landfill was never an option, says Ayton. "Looking at it practically, and environmentally, in five to 10 years Hampshire will be full. As well as coping with local demands, Hampshire landfill is taking rubbish in from London and cannot go on doing that indefinitely. Plus there are huge cost implications in sending waste to landfill - charges are rocketing and will continue to do so. The new building presented a great opportunity to address our problems of food waste disposal." Initially, Meiko UK arranged a visit to Sweden to a couple of Envac sites, inviting Carlton Clarke of CDIS-KARM and Mike Moore and Julie Stillwell of DLO, where the visitors were introduced to the Microvac vacuum waste system. They immediately recommended that Microvac should go into HMS Collingwood alongside the all-Meiko dishwashing line-up. So impressed were they with the system, they also endorsed that the newly built facility at HMS Raleigh in Cornwall should have Microvac fitted retrospectively in place of the originally specified wet waste dewatering unit. Clark says: "Although in mid build, the case was so compelling that the facility was amended to incorporate the system. Royal Navy Commander, Bob White, Project Sponsor of the new build Collingwood project, gave VT Flagship the brief - to provide a robust, sustainable mechanism to effectively deal with food waste in an environmentally friendly way and in an affordable budget. Fully involved throughout, the Commander supported the decision to proceed with the Microvac vacuum waste system. "At both sites, installation was quick and efficient. The Meiko team were always on hand to offer advice and assistance when required. Installation was followed up by a number of staff training sessions where staff were made fully aware of how to use the equipment to the best of its ability. Meiko engineers drop into the site on a regular basis to ensure staff are using the system as directed. "You have to take the time to get people out of old habits," says Ayton. "Education and continual training is the way forward." "As with any new system, we experienced teething problems. However the Meiko team were quick to respond, with both technical support and additional training and easy to follow operating instructions," says Clarke. "The food waste storage tank had to be changed at the last minute as the standard unit delivered was 80mm too wide to fit through the access door panels. Meiko quickly had an alternative narrower, longer tank manufactured and installed with the same 10,000 litre capacity," says Ayton.
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